They came up as demurely as if nothing had happened, and seemed rather surprised to be received with a hearty scolding, instead of being patted and caressed as usual.

The best way was to scold them, for a good dog feels a severe scolding as much as a whipping.

On a certain Saturday she gave him a most tremendous scolding, which so affected the spirits of the good man that it influenced his decision in regard to the selection of the subject for his sermon the next day.

I gave him a sharp scolding, for it was kicking up its hind legs like mad; but he only looked up in my face and laughed.

She very much disliked scoldings, and had not now a word to say against the old body who would frighten the horses.

I almost wish Sniatynski had given me a downright scolding, instead of larding his letter with sentences like this "In spite of all your good qualities it will come to this, that you will always be a cause of suffering and anxiety to those who love you."

As he wrote to the Editor: "give me any kind of work, writing for you, reviewing, manuscript or proof reading, I shall do anything, I shall undertake any job, even to taking editorial scoldings in all good nature, only give me work."

She had probably attempted to deal with the black man as she had been accustomed to deal with her husband; but though a female scold is generally considered a match for the devil, yet in this instance she appears to have had the worst of it.

" "As if I minded that little feathery scolding!

" "The colonel is out shooting, as you know, and won't be back till tea-time," said Mrs. Hewel, becoming more and more flurried under this torrent of lively scolding.

And first among them would be that very ancient institution of the cucking-stool; to be employed however, not as of old, against married scolds (for whom those who have been behind the scenes have all respect and sympathy), but against unmarried prophetesses, who, under whatsoever high pretence of art or religion, flirt with their neighbours' husbands, be they parson or poet.

" "But do you imagine," said Patty roguishly, "that such a mild scolding as that is going to do a hardened reprobate like me any good?"

so I suppose there is hardly an intelligent person in the English-speaking communities who has not thought of some possible remedyfrom the naive scoldings of Mr. Roosevelt and the more stolid of the periodicals to sane and intelligible legislative projects.

They even affected indifference to parental scoldings, and lingered about the enchanting spot until the shadows fell eastward and the day was old.

(From the Italian.) Think not thy faults, my pretty scold, Like transient clouds will pass away; Thine image in the rose behold, Whose leaves fade ere the thorns decay.

he says, gently, yet eying with some wonderperhaps apprehension, for odd things frighten menthe small scarlet scold who stands swelling with ruffled feathers, and angry eyes, winking to keep the tears out of them, before him.

His wrath had not cooled, but somehow his confidence in himself seemed slowly to evaporate, as it came time for him to administer the scoldingthe scolding which he had rehearsed over and over in his mind.

And when Mrs. LADLE went to ANN'S room next day, for a good square scold, she found her out.

Michelangelo immediately gave him such a thorough scolding that Cardiere plucked up courage, and set forth on foot for Careggi, a Medicean villa some three miles distant from the city.

Beside a little smoky flame Sate hovering, pinched with age and frost; Her shrivelled hands, with veins embossed, Upon her knees her weight sustains, While palsy shook her crazy brains: She mumbles forth her backward prayers, An untamed scold of fourscore years.

Bismarck's feelings as a gentleman were offended by this useless scolding; it seemed, moreover, dangerous.

" A little delicate management of this sort will often have more influence over young persons than the most vehement scolding, or the most watchful and jealous precautions.

She was not slow in availing herself of the opportunity afforded of giving Souwanas and Kennedy a vigorous scolding for nearly breaking the hearts of her precious darlings, by killing in their presence some of the birds whose play they had often watched for hours together.

I once had occasion to report, that a certain "noble lord was confined to his house with a violent cold"next morning, I found his lordship represented to be "confined with a violent scold!"

He returned only at the insistent call of hunger, to bear with stoical calm an amount of violent scolding that was more in proportion to his size than anything else that had ever before fallen to his lot in the Happy Village.